After stepping off an eight hour flight from New York to Manchester, grime MC Skepta kicked back to sit comfortably on the Red Bull music tour sofa with journalist Hattie Collins.

The grime lyricist took his loyal Manchester crowd, who filled the chairs of the Albert Hall, on a journey of nostalgia, identity and music.

With singles That’s Not Me and Shutdown sending trebles through the scene and transcending onto mainstream music charts, the MC’s releases give a small indication into the sound of his fourth studio album Konnichiwa.

Outfitted in his signature Sports Direct all black ensemble, Skepta’s blasé demeanor held steady throughout the conversation with long-time friend Hattie Collins.

However as the journalist delved a little deeper into the North London musician’s personal relationship with music, a forthright and refined manner took over the BBK member’s nonchalant, initial approach – schooling even the most knowledgeable of grime fan some home truths about the MC.

Here’s the 10 things we learnt about Skepta that we didn’t know before…

“I really want Earl on my album man that’s got to happen… I was in the studio with him in LA.

“Some days nothing go made other days we’d just crack joke for the whole day and forget that we’ve not made anything. “

Skepta HATES email music:

“My whole ethos to music now is to make it as naturally as I can.

“I fucking hate email music where I’ll send you my verse and I'm going to do mine here.

“Nowadays you can hear it you can tell when two artists weren’t in the studio together and I think all that is played out.”

For the record… he is NOT a hipster:

“At one stage when I felt that the UK music scene was going a certain direction, I wasn’t happy with the music I was producing so I purposely took a risk to go back to square one and took a risk for people to say ‘oh Skepta fell off’. People said I was shit, I got called weird.

“I also got called a hipster. What the fuck is that? How am I a hipster?”

Tour Bus Massacre was made on Skepta’s makeshift studio tour bus

“Myself, Krept and Konan were on tour and we reached Leicester and saw a music shop.

“Then I remembered the saying that goes ‘a carpenter is not a carpenter without his tools’.

“I said to myself ‘how can I be a musician without a studio?’”

“So I was like I'm going to put my studio on the bus and that’s where we made tour bus massacre… on the bus.”